Microsoft Development Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) is Microsoft's best solution for high-volume Windows 7 deployment projects. It reduces complexity and increases standardization by allowing you to deploy a hardware and software baseline to all users and computers.

It provides fully developed processes for you to do the following:

• Determine which applications can be redeployed on new systems and start a process for packaging or scripting those applications so that you can reinstall them quickly and consistently without user intervention.


• Create an imaging process to produce a standard enterprise image of Windows 7 to aid in configuration management and to speed deployments.


• Establish a process for capturing user state from existing computers and for restoring user state on the newly deployed computers.


• Provide a method for backing up the current computer before deploying Windows 7.


• Provide an end-to-end process for the actual deployment of the new computers. The guidance includes Lite Touch and Zero Touch Installations.

MDT 2010 Requirements for Zero Touch deployments

• If deploying Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is required.
• If you want to deploy previous versions of Windows using MDT 2010, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) can be used but you cannot use Deployment Workbench in this configuration to maintain an MDT database. If you are using an MDT database with System Center Configuration Manager, you should use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2.

MDT 2010 Requirements

• Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
• Windows PowerShell command-line interface, version 1.0 or 2.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3 (or higher)
• Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) for Windows 7.